Sony Announces Download Feature for Playstation Now

Sony has announced that starting today, subscribers of their game streaming service PlayStation Now can download PS2 and PS4 titles to their system. This new feature eliminates the need for streaming.

According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, “almost all” PS4 games available on the streaming platform are eligible for downloading. All classic PS2 games are included in the download feature, which will be integrated into the service on a roll-out basis over the next few days. According to the blog post, downloaded games will require an online check-in “every few days” in order to verify the user’s PlayStation Now subscription.

PS3 games available for streaming are not download-compatible.

In January this year, Microsoft launched a service in the same vein. Game Pass for Xbox One allows subscribers to download and play a library of over 100 current and previous generation games locally.

Will you be picking up a PlayStation Now subscription in light of this new feature? Let us know!

Games writer, former Games and Tech Editor for tn2magazine.ie, and a fan of great stories in games. My favourites include the Kingdom Hearts and Uncharted series, as well as Red Dead Redemption and Bioshock. I mostly play on PS4 and Switch, but I also have some thing called a Vita? Yeah I've never heard of it either.